1Und er führte mich zurück zu der TürH6607 des HausesH1004; und siehe, WasserH4325 flossen unter der SchwelleH4670 des HausesH1004 hervor gegen Osten, denn die Vorderseite des HausesH1004 war gegen Osten; und die WasserH4325 flossen herabH3381 vonH3318 unten, vonH6440 der rechtenH3233 SeiteH3802 des HausesH1004 herH7725, südlich vom AltarH4196. 2UndH6828 er führteH5437 mich hinaus durchH1870 das Nordtor, undH3802 führte mich draußenH2351 herum zum äußeren ToreH8179, des WegesH1870 zu dem gegenH1870 Osten gerichteten ToreH8179; und siehe, WasserH4325 rieselten vonH3318 der rechtenH3233 Torseite her. 3Und als der MannH376 gegen Osten hinausging, war eine MeßschnurH6957 inH5674 seiner HandH3027. Und er maßH4058 tausendH505 EllenH520, und ließ mich durch die WasserH4325 gehenH3318 - WasserH4325 bis an die KnöchelH657; 4und er maßH4058 tausendH505 Ellen, und ließH5674 mich durch die WasserH4325 gehenH5674 - WasserH4325 bis an die Knie; und er maßH4058 tausendH505 Ellen, und ließ mich hindurchgehen-WasserH4325 bis an die Hüften; 5undH5158 er maßH4058 tausendH505 Ellen-ein Fluß, durchH5674 den ich nicht gehenH5674 konnteH3201; denn die WasserH5158 waren hochH1342, WasserH4325 zum Schwimmen, ein Fluß, der nicht zu durchgehen war. 6UndH5158 erH1121 sprachH559 zu mir: Hast du es gesehenH7200, Menschensohn? Und erH3212 führte mich wiederH7725 zurück an dem UferH8193 des Flusses. 7Als ich zurückkehrte, siehe, da standen an dem UferH8193 des Flusses sehrH3966 vieleH7227 BäumeH6086 auf dieser undH5158 auf jener Seite. 8UndH3318 erH935 sprachH559 zu mir: Diese WasserH4325 fließen hinausH3318 nach dem östlichen KreiseH1552, und fließen in die Ebene hinabH3381 und gelangen in das MeerH3220; und werdenH7495 sie in das MeerH3220 hinausgeführt, so werden die WasserH4325 des Meeres gesund werden. 9UndH5158 es wird geschehen, daß alle lebendigen SeelenH5315, die da wimmelnH8317, überall wohin der Doppelfluß kommtH935, lebenH2416 werdenH7495. Und der FischeH1710 werden sehrH3966 vieleH7227 sein; denn wenn diese WasserH5158 dorthin kommenH935, so werden die WasserH4325 des Meeres gesund werden, und alles wird lebenH2421, wohin der Fluß kommtH935. 10Und es wird geschehen, daßH2764 FischerH1728 an demselben stehenH5975 werden: von En-Gedi bis En-EglaimH5882 werden Plätze sein zur Ausbreitung der Netze. Nach ihrer ArtH4327 werden seine FischeH1710 sein, sehrH3966 zahlreich, wie die FischeH1710 des großenH1419 MeeresH3220. 11Seine Sümpfe und seine LachenH1360 werdenH7495 nicht gesund werden, sieH5414 werden salzig bleiben. 12Und an dem Flusse, an seinem UferH8193, aufH5927 dieser und auf jener Seite, werdenH8552 allerlei BäumeH6086 wachsen, von denen man ißtH3978, deren BlätterH5929 nicht verwelkenH5034 und deren FrüchteH6529 nicht ausgehen werden. MonatH2320 für Monat werden sie reife FrüchteH6529 tragen, denn seine WasserH5158 fließen ausH3318 dem HeiligtumH4720 hervor; und ihre Früchte werden zur SpeiseH3978 dienen und ihre BlätterH5929 zur Heilung. 13So sprichtH559 der HerrH136, Jehova: DiesH1454 istH2256 die GrenzeH1366, nach welcher ihr euch das LandH776 als Erbe verteilen solltH5157 nach den zwölfH6240 StämmenH7626 IsraelsH3478 : für JosephH3130 zwei Lose. 14UndH376 ihr sollt es erbenH5157, der eine wie der andere, das LandH776, welches euren VäternH1 zuH5307 gebenH5414 ich meine HandH3027 erhoben habeH5375; und dieses Land soll euch als ErbteilH5159 zufallen. - 15UndH6828 dies ist die GrenzeH1366 des LandesH776 : Auf der Nordseite, vom großenH1419 MeereH3220 an, des WegesH1870 nach HethlonH2855, gegenH6285 ZedadH6657 hin; 16HamathH2574, BerothaH1268, SibraimH5453, welches zwischen der GrenzeH1366 von DamaskusH1834 und der GrenzeH1366 von HamathH2574 liegt, das mittlere Hazer, welches an der GrenzeH1366 von HauranH2362 liegt. 17UndH6828 die GrenzeH1366 vom MeereH3220 her soll Hazar-EnonH2703 sein, die GrenzeH1366 von DamaskusH1834; undH6828 den Norden betreffend nordwärts, so ist HamathH2574 die GrenzeH1366. UndH6828 das ist die Nordseite. - 18UndH1366 was die Ostseite betrifft, so ist zwischenH996 HauranH2362 und DamaskusH1834 und GileadH1568 und dem LandeH776 IsraelH3478 der JordanH3383; vonH996 der Nordgrenze nach dem östlichen MeereH3220 hin sollt ihr messenH4058. Und das ist die Ostseite. - 19UndH5158 die Mittagseite südwärts: von ThamarH8559 bis zum HaderwasserH4325 KadesH6946, und nach dem Bache Ägyptens hin bis an das großeH1419 MeerH3220. Und das ist die Südseite gegenH6285 MittagH5045. - 20UndH1366 die Westseite: das großeH1419 MeerH3220, von der Südgrenze, bis man HamathH2574 gegenüberH5227 kommtH935; das ist die Westseite. - 21Und dieses LandH776 sollt ihr unter euch verteilen nach den StämmenH7626 IsraelsH3478. 22Und es soll geschehen: euchH1481 und den FremdlingenH1616, dieH5307 inH8432 eurer Mitte weilen, welche KinderH1121 inH8432 eurer Mitte gezeugtH3205 haben, sollt ihr es als ErbteilH5159 verlosen; und sie sollen euch sein wie Eingeborene unterH8432 den KindernH1121 IsraelH3478; mit euch sollen sie um einH5307 ErbteilH5159 losen inmitten der StämmeH7626 IsraelsH3478. 23Und es soll geschehen, in dem Stamme, bei welchem der FremdlingH1616 weilt, daselbst sollt ihr ihmH1481 sein ErbteilH5159 gebenH5414, sprichtH5002 der HerrH136, Jehova.
Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary 1 VISION OF THE TEMPLE WATERS. BORDERS AND DIVISION OF THE LAND. (Eze. 47:1-23)
waters--So
Rev 22:1, represents "the water of life as proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." His throne was set up in the temple at Jerusalem (
Ezek 43:7). Thence it is to flow over the earth (
Joel 3:18;
Zech 13:1;
Zech 14:8). Messiah is the temple and the door; from His pierced side flow the living waters, ever increasing, both in the individual believer and in the heart. The fountains in the vicinity of Moriah suggested the image here. The waters flow eastward, that is, towards the Kedron, and thence towards the Jordan, and so along the Ghor into the Dead Sea. The main point in the picture is the rapid augmentation from a petty stream into a mighty river, not by the influx of side streams, but by its own self-supply from the sacred miraculous source in the temple [HENDERSON]. (Compare
Ps 36:8-
Ps 36:9;
Ps 46:4;
Isa 11:9;
Hab 2:14). Searching into the things of God, we find some easy to understand, as the water up to the ankles; others more difficult, which require a deeper search, as the waters up to the knees or loins; others beyond our reach, of which we can only adore the depth (
Rom 11:33). The healing of the waters of the Dead Sea here answers to "there shall be no more curse" (
Rev 22:3; compare
Zech 14:11).
7 trees--not merely one tree of life as in Paradise (
Gen 3:22), but many: to supply immortal food and medicine to the people of God, who themselves also become "trees of righteousness" (
Isa 61:3) planted by the waters and (
Ps 1:3) bearing fruit unto holiness.
8 the desert--or "plain," Hebrew, Arabah (
Deut 3:17;
Deut 4:49;
Josh 3:16), which is the name still given to the valley of the Jordan and the plain south of the Dead Sea, and extending to the Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea.
the sea--the Dead Sea. "The sea" noted as covering with its waters the guilty cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah. In its bituminous waters no vegetable or animal life is said to be found. But now death is to give place to life in Judea, and throughout the world, as symbolized by the healing of these death-pervaded waters covering the doomed cities. Compare as to "the sea" in general, regarded as a symbol of the troubled powers of nature, disordered by the fall, henceforth to rage no more,
Rev 21:1.
9 rivers--in Hebrew, "two rivers." Hence Hebrew expositors think that the waters from the temple were divided into two branches, the one emptying itself into the eastern or Dead Sea, the other into the western or Mediterranean. So
Zech 14:8. However, though this probably is covertly implied in the Hebrew dual, the flowing of the waters into the Dead Sea only is expressed. Compare
Ezek 47:8, "waters . . . healed," which can apply only to it, not to the Mediterranean: also
Ezek 47:10, "fish as the fish of the great sea"; the Dead Sea, when healed, containing fish, as the Mediterranean does.
10 En-gedi . . . En-eglaim--En-gedi (meaning "fountain of the kid"), anciently, Hazazon-Tamar, now Ain-Jidy; west of the Dead Sea; David's place of refuge from Saul. En-eglaim means "fountain of two calves," on the confines of Moab, over against En-gedi, and near where Jordan enters the Dead Sea (
Isa 15:8). These two limits are fixed on, to comprise between them the whole Dead Sea.
fish . . . according to their kinds--JEROME quotes an ancient theory that "there are a hundred fifty-three kinds of fishes," all of which were taken by the apostles (
John 21:11), and not one remained uncaptured; signifying that both the noble and baseborn, the rich and the poor, and every class, are being drawn out of the sea of the world to salvation. Compare
Matt 13:47, the gospel net; the apostles being fishermen, at first literally, afterwards spiritually (
Matt 4:19).
11 marshes--marshy places. The region is known to have such pits and marshes. The Arabs take the salt collected by evaporation in these pits for their own use, and that of their flocks.
not be healed--Those not reached by the healing waters of the Gospel, through their sloth and earthly-mindedness, are given over (
Rev 22:11) to their own bitterness and barrenness (as "saltness" is often employed to express,
Deut 29:23;
Ps 107:34;
Zeph 2:9); and awful example to others in the punishment they suffer (
2Pet 2:6).
12 Instead of the "vine of Sodom and grapes of Gomorrah" (
Deut 32:32), nauseous and unwholesome, trees of life-giving and life-restoring virtue shall bloom similar in properties to, and exceeding in number, the tree of life in Eden (
Rev 2:7;
Rev 22:2,
Rev 22:14).
leaf . . . not fade--expressing not only the unfailing character of the heavenly medicine of the tree of life, but also that the graces of the believer (as a tree of righteousness), which are the leaves, and his deeds, which are the fruits that flow from those graces, are immortal (
Ps 1:3;
Jer 17:8;
Matt 10:42;
1Cor 15:58).
new fruit--literally, "firstlings," or first fruit. They are still, each month afresh, as it were, yielding their first-fruit [FAIRBAIRN]. The first-born of a thing, in Hebrew idiom, means the chiefest. As
Job 18:13, "the first-born of death," that is, the most fatal death.
13 The redivision of the land: the boundaries. The latter are substantially the same as those given by Moses in Num. 34:1-29; they here begin with the north, but in Numbers they begin with the south (
Num 34:3). It is only Canaan proper, exclusive of the possession of the two and a half tribes beyond Jordan, that is here divided.
Joseph . . . two portions--according to the original promise of Jacob (
Gen 48:5,
Gen 48:22). Joseph's sons were given the birthright forfeited by Reuben, the first-born (
1Chr 5:1). Therefore the former is here put first. His two sons having distinct portions make up the whole number twelve portions, as he had just before specified "twelve tribes of Israel"; for Levi had no separate inheritance, so that he is not reckoned in the twelve.
15 Zedad--on the north boundary of Canaan.
16 Hamath--As Israel was a separate people, so their land was a separate land. On no scene could the sacred history have been so well transacted as on it. On the east was the sandy desert. On the north and south, mountains. On the west, an inhospitable sea-shore. But it was not always to be a separate land. Between the parallel ranges of Lebanon is the long valley of El-Bekaa, leading to "the entering in of Hamath" on the Orontes, in the Syrian frontier. Roman roads, and the harbor made at Cćsarea, opened out doors through which the Gospel should go from it to all lands. So in the last days, when all shall flock to Jerusalem as the religious center of the world.
Berothah--a city in Syria conquered by David (
2Sam 8:8); meaning "wells."
Hazar-hatticon--meaning "the middle village."
Hauran--a tract in Syria, south of Damascus; Auranitis.
17 Hazar-enan--a town in the north of Canaan, meaning "village of fountains."
18 east sea--the Dead Sea. The border is to go down straight to it by the valley of the Jordan. So
Num 34:11-
Num 34:12.
19 Tamar--not Tadmor in the desert, but Tamar, the last town of Judea, by the Dead Sea. Meaning "palm tree"; so called from palm trees abounding near it.
22 to the strangers--It is altogether unprecedented under the old covenant, that "strangers" should have "inheritance" among the tribes. There would not be room locally within Canaan for more than the tribes. The literal sense must therefore be modified, as expressing that Gentiles are not to be excluded from settling among the covenant-people, and that spiritually their privileges are not to be less than those of Israel (
Rom 10:12;
Gal 3:28;
Eph 3:6;
Col 3:11;
Rev 7:9-
Rev 7:10). Still, "sojourneth," in
Ezek 47:23, implies that in Canaan, the covenant people are regarded as at home, the strangers as settlers.